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Tweet Mobile phone malware in our future? Last week, a new report (PDF) on emerging threats from the Georgia Tech Information Security Center mentioned, among other predictions, that botnets were likely to hit mobile phones sometime in the next year. On Tuesday, I spoke with VeriSign CTO Ken Silva about that possibility and why it [...]

Tweet Wellanders wired to the web INTERNET USE IN ROSE CITY IS EIGHT PER CENT HIGHER THAN REST OF REGION AND CANADA residents are leading the province when it comes to surfing – surfing the Internet to be precise. Welland Hydro-Electric Holding Corp. chairman Tim Clutterbuck was at Tuesday’s city council meeting to let politicians [...]

Tweet Customers Deploy Arista Networks’ Cloud Networking Platform Arista Networks, formerly known as Arastra, today announced three customers deploying its Cloud Networking (TM) Platform for scalable datacenter and computing environments. “In the upcoming era of cloud computing, the web will be much more thanjust a means of delivering content — it will be a platform [...]

Tweet Drag and DropZones adds amazing gesture-based Web search to Firefox I’ve only recently become interested in gesture-based computing. In the past I think it’s been an overly complicated affair with too much learning involved, but these days with special hardware like Apple’s multitouch track pad and some really fantastic Firefox plug-ins, gesture-based navigation is [...]

Tweet The team at Yahoo Search has been involved with what is browser-based search assist for some time. For instance, they launched a feature literally titled Yahoo Search Assist in mid-2007. Yahoo’s Swiss Army Search Knife Inquisitor Now Out for Firefox and IE And earlier this year the company acquired the exclusively Apple Safari-friendly plugin [...]